Yuansheng Intelligence raises pre-A round for elderly-care hardware
What's the deal? Yuansheng Intelligence, a Chinese consumer electronics startup focused on home eldercare, has closed a pre-A round of over US$1.38M (roughly $1.4M). Yinchuang CapitalDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → led the round, with Dongke ChuangDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → following. The funds will go toward channel expansion and product development.
Founded in 2022, the company builds monitoring devices for elderly people living alone. Its founders previously led product teams at ImooDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → (known in China as Xiao Tiancai), the kids' smartwatch giant. CEO Deng Longsheng ran Imoo's learning tablet line; co-founder Fang Shaojie led its phone watch division.
The startup's brand, Qinlu, launched its Z9 home monitoring device in early 2025 and says it has entered a rapid growth phase. It has since released a new D-series and an upgraded Z9E.
Why now? China crossed a key demographic threshold in late 2022: over 14% of its population is now 65 or older — the point at which Japan's eldercare industry began to accelerate. In 2026, China's long-term care insurance programme is expanding nationwide, which the company expects will drive faster market growth.
"The category exists, but the brands don't," Deng said. "We want to make Qinlu the defining brand."
What could go wrong? Designing for elderly users is tricky. Unlike children's products — where parents simply decide — eldercare hardware must satisfy both the adult children who buy it and the parents who use it. Privacy is a particular tension point. One early user complained about feeling "eavesdropped on" when family members could listen in silently. The team added an audible alert whenever voice transmission is active.
The D-series addresses privacy concerns further by offering two versions: one with a standard video feed and another that transmits only a line-sketch outline of the room.
The devices use millimetre-wave radar fused with computer vision to detect falls, and can monitor heart rate and breathing in real time. Speakers are tuned to elderly hearing curves, emphasising low frequencies for clarity.
The signal: China's eldercare hardware market remains fragmented — "the category exists, but the brands don't," as the CEO puts it — and Yuansheng is racing to claim that gap before larger consumer electronics players move in. The team's pedigree at Imoo, which dominates kids' smartwatches in China, gives it a tested playbook for building purpose-built devices into a category-defining brand, but replicating that success with a far more complex end user, on a pre-A war chest of roughly $1.4M, will demand sharp prioritisation as it simultaneously eyes overseas expansion.
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